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Wednesday, July 08, 2009

Paris Petit Dejeuner

Melissa asked me, would I please visit a boulangerie chain this trip. Since it was right across the street from my hotel, I had petit dejeuner there.

*Note the petit dejeuner is called "Le Parisien"

That's meant especially for ParisBreakfasts readers.

I do have a problem with the French insisting on calling Danish pastries, "Viennoiseries" I took this up withMerisi from Vienna, but I forget her experte response...

A demo tray in the entry so you know what your getting.

I ordered "Le Continental" When C. emailed me in Paris requesting to bring her back boxes of French chocolate, my immediate thought was I can't. My bags are filled with what Marcel Proust calls Remembrances of Things Past..True, I do bring back empty chocolate boxes, but that's for still life usage.Paris petit Dejeuner, watercolor, 9" x 11 "

Many cafes no longer put their brands on glasses etc, so their tableware won't end up on your table...hmmm The dining room...

I love old graphics and typography. As if we needed any enticement to enter.*repost from April, '07

your watercolors are so exceptional. i discovered your perfect blog only a couple of weeks ago while planning my oct. visit to paris. i have been so many times ( paris is paradise in it's ways) but you have helped greatly. merci!

Bonjourre: croissants called Viennoiserie en France - I have also lived in Vienna a few years and I have heard that the croissant is in fact derived from the battle of Vienna and the crescent on the Turkish flag.

According to the font of all knowledge on the www, Wikipedia says:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Vienna (see bottom of page)

Several culinary legends are related to the Battle of Vienna:

* One legend is that the croissant was invented in Vienna, either in 1683 or in an earlier siege in 1529, to celebrate the defeat of the Turkish siege of the city, as a reference to the crescents on the Turkish flags. This version is supported by the fact that croissants in French Language are referred to as Viennoiserie and the French popular belief that Vienna born Marie Antoinette introduced the pastry to France in 1770

However, When it comes to Boulangerie Paul- I have to say I thought it was the worst. The bread was soft and cottony - French Wonder Bread.Just a big commercial operation with about as much characteras Starbucks.

And to think they did away with what was once a great outdoor market whereI could sit and have my coffee and watch the vendors selling beautiful fruitsand vegetables every morning. And now in its place is Paul's.

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Now is this Paul one in the same with a chain in London that I only know of because I have stumbled upon it in my research for our trip to London in a month? If so, I will finally have a macaron for the first time. see, with all your seductive macaron shots I am now on a mission to have my first macaron experience. and it may be in Paul's in London!